Trench

What best characterizes the trenches dug by the Allies and by Germany? They were extensive and heavily fortified. In what way did trench warfare turn out to be a disadvantage to both Germany and the Allies in War? In what way did trench warfare turn out to be a disadvantage to both Germany and the […]

The German ‘Landser’ The horrors of life in the front-line trenches has so often been described in lurid detail: the appalling suffering and loss of life, the fear and the monotony, the incessant artillery barrages, the rotting corpses, the damp, the cold, the mud, the rats and the lice. How did the Germans view ww1? […]

German Trenches The Allied forces would advance into ground that the Germans felt was difficult to defend and had cleared. The specially constructed German trenches could have been built with concrete and have had electricity, telephone lines and relatively roomy accomodation. What were the German trenches like in ww1? Trenches were long, narrow ditches dug […]

Much of the land where the trenches were dug was either clay or sand. The water could not pass through the clay and because the sand was on top, the trenches became waterlogged when it rained. The trenches were hard to dig and kept on collapsing in the waterlogged sand. What was water like in […]

Food was not always easy to get because of the war. Most soldiers were just happy to get food, even if it was the same thing, again and again. The most common food given to soldiers was bread, coffee, and salt pork. The typical ration for every Union soldier was about a pound of meat […]

Trench foot, also known as immersion foot syndrome, is a type of non-freezing cold injury. It is a condition that develops when feet are cold and wet for a long time and affects the skin. What is trench foot classified as? Trench foot occurs due to prolonged exposure of the feet to cold, damp, and […]

Peripheral Neuropathy is a condition seen often in the podiatry clinic. Many people experience sensations in their feet like burning and tingling.; Some people have described that they feel like they are walking in a wet sock, but when they check, their socks are not wet. Why do my feet feel wet and cold? Cold […]

Bizarrely, more than 100 years after the world war started, there are still parts of France that are completely uninhabitable. The areas of France are known as the ‘Zone Rouge’, or Red Zone, and collectively it’s not exactly a small area – in fact, it’s more than 1,200 square kilometres (about 460 square miles). Is […]

Key locations include Fort Douaumont, Fort Vaux and the huge Douaumont Ossuary, a cemetery that houses the bones of 130,000 unidentified soldiers. You can also visit the newly refurbished Fleury Memorial Museum and the Voie Sacree, the Trench of Bayonets, Verdun Citadelle and the Froideterre fortifications. Where are the battlefields of ww1? Location of the […]

Introduction. Trench warfare is a form of fighting in which opposing sides attack, counterattack, and defend from systems of trenches dug into the ground. Trenches are a type of field fortification that an army might use when faced with strong firepower from an opposition. Soldiers “dig in” to protect themselves. What were the trenches used […]

This is Walking in the Footsteps of the Fallen, and it contains a number of walking routes to visit areas within the forests around Verdun, where the remains of trenches, pillboxes, and the scars of the fighting are still visible. Were there trenches in Verdun? The Verdun forts had a network of concrete infantry shelters, […]

both the trenches and the No Man’s Land that separated them into a cold, muddy morass. For those on the Western Front, daily life was miserable, but it was a misery that was shared by enemies who were, in some places, separated by 50 yards (46 metres) or less. Where was no man’s land ww2? […]

No-man’s-land might be defined as the disputed space between Allied and German trenches–from the coast at one end to Switzerland 470 miles away at the other–which became the principal killing field of a notoriously cruel and inhuman war. Where is no man’s land in ww1? World War I The terms used most frequently at the […]

United States. In the U.S. military, Reveille is generally played at 7 A.M. as the morning bugle call. It was originally conducted in 1811 as “Troop”, and was designed to muster the unit or for roll call, but later came to mark when the flag was raised in the morning and honors paid to it. […]

Many men and women who served in the First World War spent long periods of time away from home. To reduce this sense of separation, leave was granted to lift them out of the monotony and dangers of active service. Did ww1 soldiers have free time? Soldiers spent long days marching and drilling, cleaning their […]

With the 1987 international ban on whaling, sperm oil is no longer legally sold. The oil from bottlenose whales was sometimes called “Arctic sperm oil.” It was cheaper than and inferior to true sperm oil. Is whale oil illegal? Whale oil has been banned in the United States since 1972. Is whale oil still sold? […]

The image of a soldier in a muddy trench is what many people visualise when they think of the First World War. However, most soldiers would only spend an average of four days at a time in a front line trench. Their daily routine when in the front line varied according to where they were. […]

This stage further develops students’ understanding of the causes of stalemate during the First World War by exploring four causes of stalemate: The Trench system, the effective use of a machine gun as a defensive weapon, the difficulty crossing No-man’s land and the use of railways to mobilise/transfer troops. Why did WWI result in a […]

Tunneling. The most secret way to build a trench was to make a tunnel and then remove the roof when the tunnel was complete. Tunneling was the safest method, but also the most difficult. The land between the two enemy trench lines was called “No Man’s Land.” This land was sometimes covered with barbed wire […]

One of the major casualties of trench warfare was trench foot. The toes literally rotted to the bone. Infection was rampant in the trenches. Many soldiers died of skin infection, lung infection and dysentery. What made trench warfare so awful? Rain caused the trenches to flood and get muddy. Mud could clog up weapons and […]